Project „experience- the base of vocational success” responds to the needs of school, local environment and the country. The target group: students of Zespół Szkół im. T. Kościuszki w Wysokiej who learn in Vocational Secondary School in the Catering, the Hotel workers and the Waiters departments. 32 students from the second and third grade will take part in the project. There will be four flows of eight students and one teacher each. They will go to Lipsk in September 2014, May 2015, September 2015 and May 2016 . The training will take place in hotels and restaurants in Lipsk. The project answers to the needs of ensuring the students gaining additional vocational experience which will be proved with certificates. The students have poor financial background and cannot afford for a training abroad. Participation in the project will let them to gain new experience which will increase their competitiveness in the job market. Aims: - Increase the participants’ competitiveness in the job market thanks to the extra qualifications and skills acquired during the work in German hotels and restaurants. - - personal development of the students - Improvement in the quality and quantity of European mobilities of people at the beginning of their vocational education - Improvement of language skills, especially vocational language - Promotion of European awareness , tolerance to cultural, ethnical and religious differences - Increase of school prestige in the local environment - Increase of the students’ motivation for learning languages - Increase of the school’s competitiveness Expected results: - increase of the vocational qualifications proved by certificates - personal development of the project participants - Increase of the students’ motivation for learning languages - Increase of school prestige in the local environment - broaden the knowledge about Germany Students will take part in two-week training in German hotels and restaurants on the base of the programme prepared by Polish and German institutions. Impact: increase of motivation to learn languages, improve vocational skills, learn about foreign cultures, countries, traditions. The project will be constantly monitored and evaluated. Long term profits- increase of school importance , improvement of cooperation with foreign partner Project will last from 16.06.2014 to 16.06.2016 Place of training: Lipsk, Germany